Ichiro and the Wave
Ichiro and the Wave presents a unique and inspirational experience by a tsunami survivor. He was fishing near the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck his boat. Stranded on an island during the devastation he wondered if he would ever see his family again. Not too many people have survived being so close to a tsunami. Ichiro’s outlook remains remarkably positive in spite of having lost dozens of his extended family members. His matter of fact descriptions make it easy to understand the step-by-step disaster scenario, and it was a good editing challenge to bring hours of interviews into a compact 10 minutes that is easy to watch.
Watch the movie here:
ICHIRO and the WAVE - A short by Isaac Kerlow from Tropical Fantasy on Vimeo.
Ichiro and the Wave was premiered at the San Antonio Film Festival. It won Best Documentary Short at the Top Indie Film Awards, and Exceptional Merit Awards in Human Spirit and also in Editing at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival.
Project Years:
Awards
Exceptional Merit Awards in Human Spirit, Docs Without Borders Film Festival
Exceptional Merit Awards in Editing, Docs Without Borders Film Festival
EOS Team:
Screening Schedule
October 2017
Festival Internacional del Cortometraje FIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September
Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival, Niagara Falls, New York
August
International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Crete, Greece
June
San Francisco Documentary Festival, SF DOCFEST, California
Pune Short Film Festival, Pune, India
May
Near Nazareth Festival, Nazareth, Israel
Polish International Film Festival, Warsaw
Docs Without Borders Film Festival, Nassau, Delaware
April
Ethnografilm Paris, Paris, France
EGU GeoCinema, Vienna, Austria
March
Albany FilmFest, Albany, California
Silk Road Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Peace On Earth Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
Tlanchana Fest, Mecatepec, Mexico
February
International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema, London, UK
December 2016
AGU Cinema, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California
November
Auckland International Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
BLUE Ocean Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Florida
Kiwi International Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
October
Top Indie Film Awards, WINNER Best Documentary Short, La Jolla, California
Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Cabo Verde International Film Festival, Isla de Sal, Cabo Verde
September
Isle of Man Film Festival, Isle of Man
Bali International Film Festival, BALINALE, South Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia
Cyprus International Film Festival, Golden Aphrodite, Nicosia, Cyprus
TrueDoc Documentary Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
July
San Antonio Film Festival, SAFILM, San Antonio, Texas